Are We Prepared for Ebola in Chicago?

Since 2005, Pangaea Information Technologies has been working as a partner with Rush University Medical Center under the leadership of Dr. Dino Rumoro DO, MPH, FACEP, Chairman Department of Emergency Medicine to advance the science of disease surveillance.  Through this collaboration, we have developed the GUARDIAN Disease Surveillance System – an automated medical chart analysis and decision support system that utilizes state-of-the-art artificial intelligence and natural language processing algorithms to search for dozens of known infectious diseases, in real-time, across all patients currently within a hospital’s emergency department.  One of the very first diseases that was encoded into the GUARDIAN system was Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) – the class of viruses which includes Ebola. 

An example of how corporations, startups connect

Pangaea had the pleasure of participating in the Corporate Startup Challenge and would like to acknowledge the support and mentoring we received from Illinois Science and Technology Coalition.  We look forward to the next steps with Allstate.